The addition of "A League of Thieves" and "BJ Meets Seattle" can only be said to add a glimmer of luster to this year's already bleak shortlist, but overall, it still cannot recreate the style of the golden age of Hong Kong cinema.

When the media received this year's shortlist, they said it was "a tall one among the short ones".

But for the Best Picture and Best Director, the media and netizens almost unanimously voted for "Thieves":

Data from Weibo Movies shows that as of the awards ceremony, more than 200,000 netizens had cast their prediction votes for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony.

More than 85% of netizens believe that "Thieves" will win the two awards of Best Picture and Best Director without any suspense.

"The overall quality of this year's nominated films is not good, and the entry of "Thieves" is simply a dimensionality-reducing blow to them."

"'Chilling' is average. The box office and reputation are not very good. The 12 nominations are more like the Academy Awards' desperate struggle to protect Hong Kong films."

Cheng Yuan entered the venue.

It can be seen that this year's Academy Awards were shabby. The venue was well-organized, the main stage was not big, and the seats below were compact and cramped.

Cheng Yuan and the crew of "A League of Thieves" were sitting in the second row directly opposite the main stage.

Cheng Yuan's mood is very calm, except for the disappointment he had with Jinji when he first debuted in 2003 - that time he really thought that his arrival could change something.

After that, he no longer had any expectations for domestic film awards.

In the past ten years, he has won two Venices, a Golden Globe, an Oscar and countless trade union awards. He has long lost any desire for the three gold medals in Chinese.

He came here this time, firstly, to sell off the reputation of his Hong Kong partners - Yinhuang, Anle, Hua Ge and others; secondly, he hoped that his arrival could win one or two awards for the actors.

They need awards to pave the way for them.

Cheng Yu'an just sat down and chatted with Brother Hua next to him. Brother Hua talked about "Horror Live" that he was still filming, and said frankly that the pressure was huge:

"I have never acted in such a situational scene before. I have had male and female partners act with me before, but in "Horror Live" I had to act in almost all the scenes by myself, which was very difficult."

Cheng Yu'an smiled and said: "Brother Hua, you have been acting for decades. If it is not a difficult drama, I would be embarrassed to ask you to do it."

Brother Hua laughed at this flattery: "This play is very enjoyable to perform. If you have such a good script in the future, come to me again."

"This kind of drama in which the protagonist acts from beginning to end is a great test of the screenwriter's skills. When our entire screenwriting studio was writing this drama, we were scolding our boss in the literature department for being inhumane."

Brother Hua laughed after hearing this, and Cheng Yu'an continued: "If you don't tease me well, I will get you another Best Actor trophy."

"Then I'll lend you my blessing." Hua Ge's acting skills have been questioned since his debut. Although he has won three Academy Awards and two Golden Horse Awards, many viewers still say that his acting is too pretentious.

- I will deliberately find a camera to make myself look handsome.

So Brother Hua is still very interested in awards.

The two said a few words, then the lights dimmed and the award ceremony officially began.

The opening performance is very novel, using the form of a stage performance to string together the six best films nominated this year.

Especially in the first program, Qian Jiale performed "Driver" and got out of the car and said to the audience: "If you can turn such a narrow corner, there must be a way out for Hong Kong movies! As long as our heads keep turning at 8,000 and add oil, we will definitely

OK!"

The traffic police came up and told him that he had parked illegally and wanted to be towed away. Qian Jiale chased the traffic police and said, "We are making a movie and we applied. Sir, can you support Hong Kong Island movies?"

The two men stepped down.

Cheng Yu'an frowned in the audience, and Andy Lau obviously felt his emotions, and explained with a wry smile: "There is no way, many people in Hong Kong movies can't afford to eat."

After the six movies were played together, the announcer called out the hosts of tonight's conference: Eric Tsang, Zheng Zhongji, Lin Jiadong, and Lin Xiaofeng.

The first awards were for Best New Actor and Best New Director.

"A League of Thieves" was not nominated for these two awards, but Xue Xiaolu of "BJ Meets Seattle" was nominated for Best New Director.

Let’s start with the new actors and award them to Xu Jiajie from “Chilling War”. This eldest brother is 66!

Set a new age record for the best new actor.

It is worth mentioning that he played a senior executive of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in "Chill", and he himself was the deputy director of the Independent Commission Against Corruption before!

what is this?

Acting in true colors? Acting yourself?

It's not played like this.

Then came the Best New Director. Perhaps to silence the crowd, Du Wenze introduced the selection rules for the Best New Director on stage: co-directors are not included in the selection.

Otherwise, "Chill" might even have won the Best New Director award.

Then, another award presenter, Peng Haoxiang, made a joke about Cheng Yu'an: "Fortunately, the 31-year-old director Cheng Yu'an made his debut early. Otherwise, if he were to run for the best new director, everyone would have nothing to do. Where is Director Cheng?"

Cheng Yuan smiled and waved his hands in the audience.

"Director Cheng, this is your first time attending the Film Awards after the Oscars. Welcome to the Academy Awards. Winning the Oscar for Best Director at the age of 30 is the pride of the Chinese people." He said, taking the lead in applause.

The audience gave a generous round of applause.

The two people on the stage made a joke and talked about the role of the new director, and then the prize was drawn.

"The winner of the Best New Director is Stephen Chow for "Manhunt". Congratulations."

Later in the Best Screenplay category, "Thieves" unfortunately failed to win, and the trophy went to "Chilling".

As soon as this award came out, there was a lot of doubts on the Internet. "Thieves" almost provided a perfect template for action movies. The laughs, explosive points and turning points firmly captured the audience's emotions. Such a story actually lost to "Thieves".

Chill".

"Do the judges of the Academy Awards have a basic sense of aesthetics? The story of "Chilling" cannot be considered excellent even among Hong Kong films. It is even worse than "The Thief". How can it win an award like this?

?”

The film review guest on Weibo could only say: "The story of "The Thief" may have been too tight and did not surprise the judges."

The subsequent costume design and art design had nothing to do with the two remote films. Wang Sunjing came on stage to present the Professional Spirit Award. This year's Academy Awards paid tribute to film, and the Professional Spirit Award was awarded to two film developing workers.

There’s nothing to say, there’s no director who doesn’t like film.

When it came to Best Supporting Actor, Hu Ge sat up straight.

He has already won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor for "A League of Thieves". If he can win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, it will be the icing on the cake.

But it is a pity that the supporting actor role was taken away by the controversial "Pulp Comedy".

So far, "Pulp Comedy" has won two awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actor.

This film caused great controversy on both sides of the Taiwan Strait at the time. The film tells the story of a Hong Kong film producer who deceived a mainland boss into investing in a salty and wet film.

In the film, the director arbitrarily smeared the mainland and even proudly glorified Hong Kong-style vulgarity and foul language as "local culture."

From beginning to end, Hong Kong Island’s sense of superiority over the mainland is revealed.

"Stigmatizing the image of mainlanders in a very humiliating way is an extremely narrow way of spiritual victory."

"He (the director) knows very well that belittling mainlanders in Hong Kong Island has a politically correct effect. It can make Hong Kong people feel good about themselves, but it also inadvertently shows the narrowest, most opportunistic and hypocritical side of Hong Kong Island society. "Pulp

"Comedy" is vulgar and violent. At present, local creators and audiences in Hong Kong have long taken vulgarity for granted, and even beautified it as local characteristics. This vicious cycle of confusing right and wrong in cultural consumption and the lack of the ability to reflect has really made people

People feel sad.”

Cheng Yuan was disgusted by the two awards for supporting actor and actress.

The latter award for Best Editing went to "Thieves" as expected:

"The Best Editing Award goes to Zhou Ying, "Thieves"."

Zhou Ying is the chief editor of China Film, and Cheng Yuan has worked with her for many years. This award is also her first major award.

"Thank you, thank you to the judges of the Academy Awards for their recognition. I have worked with Yu'an for many years, and thank you, Director Cheng, for your recognition of my editing skills." Zhou Ying was very excited and didn't know what to say, "Thank you everyone, thank you."

After saying that, he stepped down.

Brother Jackie Chan took the stage to award the best cross-strait film. Jackie Chan very cleverly used bilingual broadcasts, sometimes in Mandarin and sometimes in Cantonese. The award was awarded to "1942".

It will be led by Wang Zhonglei, Zhang Guoli and Xu Fan.

Then the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented, no doubt to Wu Siyuan, the godfather of Hong Kong film.

The latter action design was given to "Twelve Zodiac Signs".

After presenting the award, Cheng Yu'an left his seat and went backstage to prepare. He was going to award the best actress behind.

But there is also the Best Director Award ahead, presented by Aaron Kwok.

"The Best Director of the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards is, "Cold War", Liang Yueming and Luk Jianqing."

The introduction of this award has caused greater controversy than the best screenplay.

Before the awards were announced, no one doubted that "A League of Thieves" would win Best Director.

"This..." The commentators in the live broadcast room were speechless, "Haha."

The simultaneous Cantonese translators at 1905 Movie Network paused for a long time. They did not expect that "Thieves" would lose to "Cold War".

Liang Yueming and Lu Jianqing are newcomers!

"Chilling" was their first movie, and they lost the Oscar for Best Director to two newcomers!

The faces of the actors in the two crews of "Thieves" and "BJ Meets Seattle" changed slightly, especially Liu Yifei.

The director of the Academy Awards even gave a close-up of Liu Yifei. Although Liu Yifei forced a smile, everyone could see the coldness in her eyes and the perfunctory applause.

Cheng Yu'an, who was in the background, heard the announcement at the front desk and smiled bitterly without knowing what to say.

However, the Hong Kong staff in the background cheered.

After Liang and Lu gave their acceptance speeches, the stage was handed over to the hosts Zheng Zhongji and Lin Xiaofeng:

"Next we have to award the Best Actress."

"Then who is our award guest?"

"This guest is amazing. He is the pride of our Chinese filmmakers."

"oh?"

"He is the youngest Oscar-winning director. Welcome Cheng Yu'an."

Cheng Yu'an took the winner's envelope and walked to the front stage with live music.

"Hello everyone, my name is Cheng Yu'an."

There was warm applause.

Cheng Yu'an looked at Liang in the audience with deep meaning, and the two of them said: "Congratulations to you two, you won the Academy Award for your first movie. I'm not as lucky as you. I didn't win the gold medal until my fourth movie."

The best director was sent to me by a foreigner."

Liu Dehua, Jiang Zhiqiang and others who were close friends with Cheng Yu'an in the audience laughed in response. Anyone who understood knew that he was teasing them. Cheng Yu'an's fourth film won the Best Director at Venice.

None of the Hong Kong film tycoons present here have anything to say. In terms of awards, no one here is Cheng Yu'an's opponent.

Cheng Yu'an continued: "I have participated in many film festivals, but the Academy Awards do not come often. Mr. Chen Jiashang (the chairman of the film festival) asked me to present the award. I asked what award to present, and he said he asked me to present the best actress.

I said that I wasn’t very familiar with the current Hong Kong actresses and couldn’t recognize them all. He said it didn’t matter, just come. I got the nomination list and looked at it. Fortunately, I knew them all. They were all old faces. They were ten years ago.

They are still them."

The Yin Yang and Weird Hong Kong actor is having a rough time.

Most of the online and live audiences got the joke.

"Cheng Yuan's bad mouth is too damaging."

"Okay, let's take a look at the shortlist."

Zhou Gongzi accounted for the two best actress nominations for her two films "The Wind Listener" and "The Magician"; Michelle Yeoh's "Chun Jiao and Zhiming"; Sammi Cheng's "Love at High Altitude"; Jiang Ruolin "Lifting Love";

Liu Yifei "BJ Meets Seattle"; Yang Mi "Thieves".

Mr. Zhou didn't come because the schedule couldn't be coordinated.

Cheng Yu'an held the trophy in his hand: "Let's see who won the prize."

Opening the envelope: "Sure enough." Cheng Yu'an snorted, "Yang Qianhua, "Chun Jiao and Zhiming"."

Yang Qianhua stood up excitedly, and her husband Ding Zigao kissed her hard.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yang Qianhua came on stage to take the trophy from Cheng Yuan and hugged Cheng Yuan.

This is her first time winning an Academy Award for Best Actress.

"It's tragic, I'm so scared." Yang Qianhua stood on the stage and couldn't help herself for a long time. It took a long time before she started to deliver her acceptance speech.

Cheng Yu'an sat back down the stage, thinking to herself: "I'm so stupid."

No wonder Chen Jia Shang asked himself to award the Best Actress award.

Now he has enough reasons to suspect that Chen Jia Shang is using himself and Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei was also nominated for Best Actress. Before the awards, the media was hyping it up.

Liu Yifei was shortlisted and Cheng Yuan presented the award. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Academy Awards are promoting their relationship.

If the Best Actress award really goes to Liu Yifei, then Cheng Yu'an's award to Liu Yifei will definitely be a hit, and Cheng Yu'an doesn't mind the hype surrounding the Academy Awards, but it turns out the award was given by mistake.

Academy Award, hehe.

There are two awards left, Best Actor goes to Tony Leung, and Best Picture goes to "Chill".

"A League of Thieves" won all six awards except for Best Editing.

"BJ Meets Seattle" was even more fruitless.

Liu Yifei left the filming of "Interstellar" and rushed back, only to be teased.

The two of them flew back to the capital without even attending the celebration dinner after the award ceremony.

That night, #金影视# was listed as a hot search on Weibo.

Netizens expressed their dissatisfaction with "Thieves Alliance".

"I'm afraid the Academy Awards will be shameless. The level of "Chilling" and the level of "Thieves" can be judged by just going to the cinema and watching it. It's blatantly partial and narrow-minded!"

After the awards ceremony, Remote Media CEO Zhong Lifang posted two words on Weibo: "Haha."

Chen Zhixi even posted: "I said it well at the beginning, and the awards were fair and just, but in the end, my petty attitude was clearly revealed. Except for the best editing, all the awards were awarded to local films. This is the so-called fairness and justice. I shouldn't have been right."

The Academy Awards have unrealistic illusions, because its full name is the "Hong Kong Island Film Awards", and of course it will only serve Hong Kong Island films.

"What used to be the highest award for Chinese-language films has now been turned into a regional commendation conference. It has no tolerance for others and will only huddle in its own small circle to enjoy itself. Even a film like "Vulgar Comedy" that clearly slanders mainland compatriots can be honored openly.

When I stepped onto the stage, I really saw the 'fairness and justice' of the Academy Awards."

Remote Media Chief Producer Jiang Xuerou was even more temperamental and directly pierced the mask of the Academy Awards:

"Before the award ceremony, the jury asked me to persuade Yu'an to participate. They hinted that the best actress would be awarded to Yifei. They asked me to persuade Yu'an to award the best actress, which would create a good story in the film industry.

With the friendship between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in mind, I tried my best to persuade Yu'an and Yifei to attend the award ceremony, but I never expected that this would be the result.

"He is the pride of our Chinese-language films. He does not need certification from the Academy Awards, but that doesn't mean you can humiliate him like this."

Jiang Xuerou directly put the Golden Statue Award on the stove to bake.

Chen Jiashang came out urgently the next day to declare: "The jury voting for the Academy Awards is strictly controlled and audited, and there is no secret operation."

Regarding the public voting details proposed by netizens, Chen Jiashang refused on the grounds that it "does not comply with the regulations of the conference."

Sound King's production director Li Yabo called Chen Zhixi that night and said that Sound King had no knowledge of the Academy Awards voting review and hoped that the results of the Academy Awards would not affect the cooperation between the two companies.

"Are you unhappy?" Liu Yifei asked.

"No." Cheng Yu'an smiled.

He really doesn't think the Academy Awards are anything special, but it's a pity that he didn't win more awards for the two crews: "I don't need the Academy Awards."

Liu Yifei also knew that Cheng Yuan would go to the Academy Awards this year because she really wanted to award herself the Best Actress trophy.

"We won't go there anymore."

"This may be the closest you'll ever get to being an actress. Don't you feel a pity?"
Chapter completed!